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On Thursday, May 3rd at 6:30 EST, X-Play will debut the live-action movie "Ghost Recon Alpha," prequel to the upcoming game Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. In the video below, Adam Sessler, Morgan Webb, and Blair Herter give you a first look at the trailer.

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Our Prototype 2 collectible locations guide is here to help you find all the blackboxes, field ops, and lairs with ease. All you have to do is scroll down to the location you desire and input the longitude and latitude numbers into Prototype 2's map as a waypoint, and you'll be directed straight towards the collectible items.

It's that easy! Don't waste time roaming around the city looking in each nook and cranny to find that last blackbox. Just bookmark our reliable Prototype 2 collectible locations guide and you'll have more time slashing and devouring your enemies in no time.

For more comic goodness, don’t forget to visit our friends at Comic Alliance. Make sure to grab a digi-copy of Moriarty from Graphicly.com via the link below and keep your eye out for Daniel’s theatrical version coming soon!

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Tune in tonight 6:30PM ET on X-Play as we check out Spec Ops: The Line multiplayer, Max Payne 3 combat, and characters in DmC Devil May Cry. Full show details below:

Spec Ops: The Line Multiplayer Preview
Get a look at multiplayer battle in the sandbox of a stormy Dubai in Spec Ops: The Line multiplayer.

DmC Devil May Cry Character Preview
Capcom gives the Devil May Cry series a reboot with a new look, new developers, and some characters we need to talk about.

Max Payne 3 Combat PreviewMax Payne 3 may be adding things like a cover system to the series' combat mechanics, but Rockstar says it will still be the same old Max Payne. Get details in a combat preview.

Gronkowski Brothers Game Challenge
Gronkowski brothers Chris, Dan, and Rob all play professional football in the NFL, but they're also avid gamers. We got them into one room to find out who wins off the gridiron and on the console.

X-List: Top 5 Brothers In Games
Gaming has some memorable brothers who got along, but it's the ones who despised each other that really stand out. We'll count down our five favorite brother combos in all of gaming.

Games For The Whole Family
You might not always game with the whole family, but when you do, we'll have five titles you won't have to suffer through.

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The Dragon's Dogma opening theme song is "Intro Free-Dangan" by B'z and here at G4 we were inspired by this awesome song. We were so inspired, in fact, we created our very own [un]official Dragon's Dogma music video created by me, Donell "Dragonslayer" Tucker. Without further ado, enjoy this anime inspired music video for Dragon's Dogma, that Capcom will probably approve, right?

Though Japanese RPGs have a firm template in place for how each release from that stable should be approached, Western RPGs have always been scattershot. Isometric visions of apocalyptic wastelands, sprawling high fantasy tales rife with warring factions, and even the gambles that mimic a J-RPG, right down to the party's mannerisms and four-disc spread of content – remember PlayStation's Shadow Madness?

All the different approaches, however, do not necessarily demonstrate that the genre has been moving forward. In fact, despite the staggering success of games like Skyrim, there are some building blocks that could surely be rearranged to compile a more ambitious role-playing game. I've rounded up three key components I believe would work swimmingly, and could improve upon player engagement and immersion factor – and in doing so, create a better RPG overall.

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First, let's look at the factor of player interaction with that of the faithful battle party. An immediate example that comes to mind demonstrating a step in the right direction is BioWare's Mass Effect/Dragon Agestable. While both franchises aren't without their own respective flaws, they go to great lengths to offer aspiring party leads choices, back stories, and camaraderie. More specifically, character relationships – some that could obviously be expanded fully, but relationships nevertheless.

Both titles assign more than a face, class, and skill set to the faces that comprise your battle party – they give meaning to your conflicts and serve as a means to ignite that explorer's spark. You wan to see Tali for who she is beyond the mask. You're moved to sympathize with Thane Krios. Your underlings become treasured – such as you completely losing it at critical junctures of Mass Effect and its sequel, where one party member must be lost, and others' loyalties demolished.

Watch the US television premiere of ARENA this Saturday, April 21st on G4, which takes you inside the virtual world of underground fighting.

Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kellan Lutz, the action packed film follows a man kidnapped and forced to fight for his life in the dirty underworld of gladiator style death matches. Check out the trailer below:

ARENA premieres on Saturday, April 21st at 9/8c, only on G4. There’s no greater battle than the fight for your life!

Ask the average gamer how Street Fighter correlates to poker and chances are, you're probably going to get a puzzled stare. Before I attended Seth Killian's lecture on game design in fighting games last year, I was certain that people like Hevad 'Rainkhan' Khan, who placed sixth in the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, and online legend Randy 'Nanako' Lew were flukes. Now, I'm not so sure.

Earlier this month, I called up professional Street Fighter player Arturo Sanchez to ask him about the similarities between poker players and professional Street Fighter players. He told me that I would have to learn the game first. That's how I got here. It's 7'o clock in the morning and Arturo Sanchez, his voice nasally from a recent flu, is breaking down his after-hours match from Evo 2009 over Skype.

"We were doing it just for fun, but people decided to make bets." Arturo Sanchez is one of the rare few who can comment so flippantly on an encounter with Daigo Umehara, the current Guinness World holder for 'most successful player in major tournaments of Street Fighter'. As 'The Beast' of the competitive Street Fighter landscape appears on the screen, Sanchez grins. "I think $20, 000 USD or so exchanged hands that night."

"Street Fighter is about position and space control." Sanchez explains as he draws a line across two thirds of the screen, the characters frozen in place; Umehara is playing Ryu, Sanchez has Dhalsim."See this? This is Dhalsim's optimal range. This is my sweet spot. Daigo can't cross this line without being punished and he knows this."

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Tune in tonight 6:30PM ET on X-Play as we check out Sleeping Dogs and get face time with fantasy genre virtuoso R.A. Salvatore. Plus, the Xbox 360 Kinect Star Wars bundle and Videogame Deathmatch: The Greatest Story Ever Told reaches the final round. Full show details below:

Sleeping Dogs Gameplay Preview
Sleeping Dogs is the former Activision project, now in the hands of Square Enix, that looks to revive the true crime genre with a story of undercover sleuthing amongst organized crime in Hong Kong.

Face Time: R.A. Salvatore
Get face time with writer R.A. Salvatore, who wrote The Demon's War Saga and has worked on such varied fantasy fare as Forgotten Realms, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and even Dungeons & Dragons.

Videogame Deathmatch: The Greatest Story Ever Told Final Round
What started with 32 games vying for the prize of best videogame story ever is now down to a final two. We'll preview the final round action of Videogame Deathmatch: The Greatest Story Ever Told.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Hands-On Preview
Real-time strategy Sins of a Solar Empire is not a game easily picked up, but upcoming stand-alone expansion pack "Rebellion" promises to be a little more user friendly. We'll go hands-on for an early look.

Collector's Edition: Xbox 360 Limited Edition Kinect Star Wars Bundle
An Xbox 360 in R2D2 finish and a controller in C3PO gold is enough to get us on board, but there's more. We'll check out everything that comes with the Xbox 360 Limited Edition Kinect Star Wars Bundle.

Xenoblade Chronicles Review
Nintendo never intended to release the Wii RPG Xenoblade Chronicles in the United States, but an online petition got them to reconsider. It's here, and we'll have our review.

The MMO Report
It's time to stop by MMO Report studios for all the week's biggest news in MMO Gaming with Casey Schreiner.

It might be a slower part of the year when it comes to game releases, as developers are gearing up for the fireworks that come with E3, but Adam Sessler finds a diamond in the rough with the Xbox 360 release of The Witcher 2: Assassin's of Kings. Check out what he has to say about this fine gift from Eastern Europe.

We set the video settings on the PC to the highest, which is on 'Ultra Specs' and we did not change the levels on brightness or gamma. On the Xbox 360, we installed the game and ran it on 1080p with the default brightness/gamma levels. Take it from me, there were no alterations to make one look better than the other one. See for yourself the differences and similarities between the two platforms and leave a comment below letting us know which platform you think looks better.